MUNICH — The great and the good of the Atlantic security elites, and a few of their adversaries, face an unusually complex series of challenges as they gather for their annual summit in Munich this week.
It was here, in February 2007, that President Vladimir Putin first threw down the gauntlet to the West, although his language was relatively mild by today’s standards. It has been downhill ever since: war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008; Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014 and 2015; and now, Russian moves to undercut what little Western policy attempts there have been in Syria.
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Source: European Voice
